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VR
2008
IEEE
128views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2008»
16 years 15 days ago
Showing Users the Way: Signs in Virtual Worlds
In this paper, we report the results of a pilot study designed to evaluate the impact of signs as navigation aids in virtual worlds. Test subjects were divided into three groups (...
Daniel C. Cliburn, Stacy Rilea
ICRA
2009
IEEE
113views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
16 years 24 days ago
Visual topological SLAM and global localization
— Visual localization and mapping for mobile robots has been achieved with a large variety of methods. Among them, topological navigation using vision has the advantage of offeri...
Adrien Angeli, Stéphane Doncieux, Jean-Arca...
SSD
2009
Springer
91views Database» more  SSD 2009»
16 years 20 days ago
Semantic Trajectory Compression
In the light of rapidly growing repositories capturing the movement trajectories of people in spacetime, the need for trajectory compression becomes obvious. This paper argues for ...
Falko Schmid, Kai-Florian Richter, Patrick Laube
UAI
2008
15 years 7 months ago
CORL: A Continuous-state Offset-dynamics Reinforcement Learner
Continuous state spaces and stochastic, switching dynamics characterize a number of rich, realworld domains, such as robot navigation across varying terrain. We describe a reinfor...
Emma Brunskill, Bethany R. Leffler, Lihong Li, Mic...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Joint visual vocabulary for animal classification
This paper presents a method for visual object categorization based on encoding the joint textural information in objects and the surrounding background, and requiring no segmenta...
Alireza Tavakoli Targhi, Andrzej Pronobis, Heydar ...